Realizing the Revolution
With no sign that the GOP has a plan to counter the inevitable, January of 2009 may well begin with a Democrat in office more powerful than any president in modern memory.
With no sign that the GOP has a plan to counter the inevitable, January of 2009 may well begin with a Democrat in office more powerful than any president in modern memory.
Cenk Uygur | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
If Republicans lose in deeply Republican districts as they did last night, they can literally lose anywhere. The whole electoral map can be redrawn.
The Swamp | Bob Secter and Jeff Coen | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics
The name of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert was added Monday to the roster of political heavyweights linked by witnesses to an alleged plan t...
Sandy Goodman | Posted 04.03.2008 | Politics
The most powerful person in the House of Representatives left office after his indictment two and a half years ago. But his case has still not come to trial. Why not?
Washington Post | Jonathan Weisman | Posted 03.16.2008 | Politics
While all eyes were on the presidential campaign and the demise of New York Gov. Eliot L. Spitzer (D) last week, Republicans on Capitol Hill were suff...
Paul Abrams | Posted 03.10.2008 | Politics
Barack Obama -- not Hillary Clinton -- actively, with TV ads, supported Bill Foster's attempt to win Dennis Hastert's seat in the House. He won a seemingly unwinnable seat, in a very Republican district.
The Politico | John Bresnahan and Josh Kraushaar | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
For National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Tom Cole (Okla.), every week seems to bring a new set of problems. On Saturday night, things ...
Huffington Post | Posted 03.09.2008 | Politics
Yesterday, little-known Democrat Bill Foster scored a major upset and won the congressional seat held for 20 years by former House Speaker Dennis Hast...
AP | DEANNA BELLANDI | Posted 03.08.2008 | Politics
The AP is reporting that the GOP has lost the House seat vacated by Dennis Hastert: Democrat Bill Foster has snatched former House Speaker Dennis Has...
Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 12.19.2007 | Politics
I must agree with the prescient counsel of Tom DeLay who in 1998 said: "This nation sits at a crossroads. One direction points to the higher road of the rule of law...."
AP | Deanna Bellandi | Posted 11.26.2007 | Politics
Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert, who made a farewell speech to House colleagues 11 day earlier, made his resignation official Monday with a letter...
AP | CHARLES BABINGTON | Posted 10.18.2007 | Politics
Former House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert will resign soon rather than complete his term 15 months from now, ending a 21-year career in Congress, Republi...
HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY! In honor of the great American holiday, Huffington Post has pulled together...
US News and World Report printed a short piece about GOP fears that the...
Lee Grivas, the 26-year-old boyfriend of Christina Applegate, was found dead in...
Tracie Egan, and Moe Tkacik, two writers from Jezebel.com were invited to appear on my show, Thinking...
Florida's bachelor Governor Charlie Crist is getting married, and to a woman, too. That's how badly...
On the Fourth Of July Arianna appeared on CNN's Situation Room...
Even with the GOP convention nearly two months away, some in the Republican...
NICE, France — They'll always have Nice. Angelina Jolie and Brad...
"The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday - but never jam to-day." "It MUST come sometimes to...
PENSACOLA, Fla. — Oil companies once viewed drilling in the deep waters off...
This presidential election has already generated...
Dylan Loewe | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics